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In a fiery escalation, Iranian officials have vowed to “pursue and kill” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following Israel’s recent missile strikes on western Iran, which took place Sunday morning.
The threat, issued by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and disseminated through state media, was reported by the Associated Press. The IRGC described Netanyahu as a “child-killing criminal” and pledged to continue their pursuit with “full force” if he remains alive.
This stark warning comes on the heels of Netanyahu’s comments earlier in the week, where the 76-year-old Israeli leader asserted that the United States and Israel were jointly dismantling Iran’s influence and altering the political landscape of the Middle East.
“We are in historic days, days that will be recorded in the annals of Israel. In ‘Operation Roaring Lion,’ our roar is growing stronger,” Netanyahu proclaimed in a national address on Thursday. “We are crushing the terrorist regime in Iran. We are striking and crushing its proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.”
The conflict, now in its third week, was ignited by a collaborative military offensive from the US and Israel. This operation targeted strategic military sites across Iran and resulted in the airstrike that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and 40 of his top officials in a fortified compound in Tehran.
Netanyahu has staved off continuous threats from Iran’s military, including missile and drone strikes launched at Israel.
“Threats come and go—but when we become a regional power, and in certain fields a global power, we have the strength to push dangers away from us and secure our future,” he said.
“In 1993, I published a newspaper article and I wrote: ‘The greatest danger to Israel’s existence is not found in the Arab states; it is found in Iran.’ Since then, for over 30 years, the murderous regime of the ayatollahs has indeed acted to harm the US and the West, but first and foremost, it acted to advance its plan for the destruction of Israel.”
On Sunday, the IDF launched “a wave of extensive strikes targeting infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime in western Iran.
President Trump on Saturday said Iran is begging to end the war, but he is not willing to talk to them until the Iranian regime is serious about the proposed terms.
“Iran wants to make a deal, and I don’t want to make it because the terms aren’t good enough yet,” Trump told NBC News.
The agreement between the US would require Iran to completely abandon any nuclear ambitions.
Trump reiterated that the conditions of the terms have to be “very solid” in order for him to agree to them, ending the military campaign.